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noun
1.
a group or body of delegates: Our club sent a delegation to the rally.
2.
the body of delegates chosen to represent a political unit, as a state, in an assembly: the New Jersey delegation in Congress.
3.
the act of delegating.
4.
the state of being delegated.
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Delegation
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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- Determine and manage the balance of workload and delegation of efforts across creative team c.
- Next week, our correspondent travelling with the delegation will report how things turned out.
- But negotiations with the delegation had hit rough seas.
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delegation
1610s, "action of delegating," from L. delegationem, noun of action from delegare (see '-----). Meaning "persons sent by commission" is from 1818; meaning "a state's elected representatives, taken collectively," is U.S. political usage from 1820s.
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